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Perhaps of more concern was this note from the auditors: 'The group's cash flow forecasts indicate that its ability to meet its liabilities as they fall due for next 12 months is dependent upon securing alternative funding.

'These conditions indicate the existence of a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt as to the group's ability to continue as a going concern.'

That uncertainty spooked a few investors, with shares down 22 per cent over the week to 0.4p. They have fallen 69 per cent in the year to date.

On to something a little sweeter and AIM-listed luxury chocolatier Hotel Chocolat gave shareholders a taste of the good stuff with its full-year results.

We already knew that sales would smash through the £100m mark but the group, which floated last May, managed to translate that to the bottom line as well, with pre-tax profits doubling to £11.2m.

Hotel Chocolat is also taking action to open up its offering to a wider audience after it signed deals with Amazon and Ocado which will now stock its products.

Sweet success: Hotel Chocolat is taking action to open up its offering to a wider audience after it signed deals with Amazon and Ocado which will now stock its products

Even a cautionary note about the UK consumer outlook couldn’t dent confidence, with the share price surging 19.5 per cent to 306.5p.

Subtitling and TV content specialist, ZOO Digital, also lifted shareholders’ spirits with an upbeat statement ahead of its annual general meeting on Monday.

The company said it expects to report first half revenues in excess of $12m after sales in its ZOOsubs subtitling division doubled year-on-year.

To put that in perspective, ZOO could only muster $7.8m in revenues in the first half of 2016.

Given that the 'pipeline remains strong' as well, ZOO now expects full-year revenues to be 'well ahead' of its previous forecasts. Shares added a third to 38p.

Overall it was a decent week for junior stocks, with the AIM All Share rising 0.6 per cent, or 5.8 points, to leave it just over the 1,000 mark.

Shining bright: Botswana Diamonds had a shine about it this week as it bathed in the news of a huge diamond sale in the country

That wasn’t enough to beat the blue chips though; the FTSE 100 gained 0.84 per cent, or 61.5 points, across the week to 7,372.2.

Botswana Diamonds had a shine about it this week as it bathed in the news of a huge diamond sale in the country.

The world’s second-biggest diamond, the Lesedi La Rona, found two years ago from Botswana’s Karowe mine, was sold for $53m to a luxury jeweller yesterday.

That got investors excited, as did an update from the company on Ontevreden - its new kimberlite discovery and part of the BOD’s Vutomi Joint Venture in South Africa.